Winds of change : hurricanes and the transformation of nineteenth century Cuba / by Pérez, Louis A., Jr., 1943-

Table of Contents: “…Coming into Being; 3. A Time of Tempests; 4. When Winds Disturb the Surface; 5. Bending to the Force of the Wind; 6. …”
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The flower of empire : the Amazon's largest water lily, the quest to make it bloom, and the world it helped create / by Holway, Tatiana M.

Table of Contents: “…Prologue: Victoria's floras -- Terra incognita -- Perils and wonders -- A floral sensation -- An international tempest -- Return to the wild -- Cultivating Kew Gardens -- His grace and his gardener -- The flowering of Chatsworth -- Golden square -- Evergreens -- Salvaging Kew Gardens -- Trading favors -- Trials and errors -- The great stove -- Reviving Kew Gardens. -- Return to El Dorado -- Paxton, inc -- First bloom -- Nature's engineer -- Empire under glass -- Epilogue: Victoria regia redux.…”
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Standing against the whirlwind : evangelical Episcopalians in nineteenth-century America / by Bass, Diana Butler, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…: the advance of "Puseyism" and the war within the church, 1839-1852 -- Standing up for Jesus : the evangelical Episcopal quest for purity, 1853-1865 -- "The ship in tempest" : rationalism, ritualism, and the post-Civil War evangelical worldview, 1866-1874 -- Conclusion : whither evangelicalism?…”
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Rebellion now and forever : Mayas, Hispanics, and caste war violence in Yucatán, 1800-1880 / by Rugeley, Terry, 1956-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the caste war uncrossed -- Men newly powerful : how Pueblo politics became a caste war -- The extremes of death or triumph : a society goes to war, 1847-1851 -- Nothing more than a new conquest : a world catches its breath -- The roar of a terrible tempest : liberal reform and the civil wars, 1855-1863 -- The empire comes to Mayab -- A world (mostly) restored : the paradoxes of the republic -- Peace, Porfirian-style : East meets West, and a people contort the past -- Conclusion : violence and the ghost of Santiago Imán.…”
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Dickens, journalism, music : Household words and All the year round / by Bledsoe, Robert Terrell

Table of Contents: “…Iv Shakespeare, Faust, and Music about Music v De Mortuis: Obituaries for Meyerbeer and Berlioz ; vi Offenbach and Wagner: The Mire and the Mist ; Chapter 4 Music and Friendship; i Dickens, Viardot, and the Prophet ; ii Musical Friends in England ; iii Chorley and the Lehmanns ; iv Dickens and the Lehmanns ; v Orphée in Paris: Offenbach, Gluck, Berlioz ; vi Robert Lytton's Tannhäuser and Arthur Sullivan's Tempest ; vii A Time to Weep and a Reason: Orphée and Resurrection ; viii Gounod's Faust: Angels and Pursuers ; Epilogue ; i Classical Music and English Worshippers ; ii Personal ; Notes.…”
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